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Every rigid rule is bound to be broken some day. We had promised to release only one recording by artist in the hinah series but LunDi is the first project to run counter to the concept, with a second CD out on hinah! Two years after "Mobiles/motifs", Claude-Marin Herbert is back with his fourth EP, precisely named "4". These five tracks benefit again from Claude-Marin's impeccable lyrics, but this time the piano is much more upfront, except in "Axes" and its sharp...
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SZ is the solo project of Franck Litzler, former quitarist/bassist and co-founder of NATSAT (a post-rock band from Tours, France, that played with The Ex, Trans Am, and Shipping News). After moving from Tours to Grenoble, Franck started again a project that he'd first started in 1992 when he bought a 4-track recorder: Franck recorded everything he could, sampling, twisting, and mixing sounds he'd gathered during travels to India, Iran, South America, with electronic pieces and acoustic...
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The mysterious Charles C. Oldman is actually a well-known musician around here: Charles-éric Charrier, a cheerful guy mostly known as the acoustic bassist in a Nantes-based duet named man. As Charles happens to be less talkative when it comes to writing, let's try to introduce this track by ourselves. It was recorded live in 2002, and Oldman first sets up noises of scratched strings, which provokes a pleasant excitement on the skin, and then he builds up - very slowly - atmospheric layers and...
Topics: hinah, Charles C.Oldman, hinah gift
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We first discovered this project from Phil Spirito (ex-Rex, ex-Loftus and a member of Califone) in a record shop, wondering what was that homophonic band (our surname is Orseau) with a beautiful sleeve showing a bear ('orso' in Italian), a beehive and, of course, bees annoying the massive plantigrade. We became even more intrigued and interested as we explored their raw folk music, with an upfront banjo playing unusually slowly and creating a constant unease. After three albums, and especially...
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hinah has always liked to combine music and graphic universes (photography, drawing, painting, collages...). In 2006, we introduce a new concept in our website: a hinah calendar. It features twelve photographs by Laurent Orseau, one for each month, and songs written by artists in the hinah sphere and inspired by the related pictures. Music by Dave DeCastro, Alex Gwinnett, LunDi, Melmac, The Potomac Accord http://hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=c&o=2290 * January - Square Dolls Dave DeCastro...
Topics: hinah, hinah collaborations, calendar, 2006
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Mar 28, 2014
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Donna is a French duet made up of Frédéric Dufourd from Paris and Olivier Larvor currently in exile in Ireland. The two accomplices have known each other for eons and have already recorded an impressive number of albums and eps, so far unreleased. Therefore "La Mort (Décembre 2001)" is their first album that's coming out on a label. Their world navigates between an icy and violent vision and schoolkids' jokes with a tendency toward depression and cynicism, and their lyrics...
Topics: hinah, hinah series, Donna, La Mort
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You may have already come across Lille-based Julie Fossaert as part of the peppy band Peru Peru, or heard her much more intimate solo project named Rêve ("Dream"). On "R&A", she appears stripped down although, paradoxically, she is joined by many guests (Eric Chenaux, Valérie Leclercq, Claire Vailler, McCloud Zicmuse, Myriam Pruvot... and many more) on songs that were recorded in many different places (Lille, Nantes, Dunkirk, Paris, Nancy and Villeurbanne). Each track...
Topics: Julie Fossaert, hinah, hinah series, folk
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We discovered the french band HitchcockGoHome! via the website of their good friends Cyann & Ben. And we were bound to fall in love with their sound that blends old folk music (Martin Leclerc plays the banjo!) with more noisy sounds (they are also fans of post-rock band like Godspeed You Black Emperor!). So after long hours of talking about music with them, it was more than normal for us to invite HGH for a hinah session! - hinah...
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Mar 25, 2014
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The Transmissionary Six
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Transmissionary Six is the project born of the meeting of Terri Moeller, drummer from the folk veteran Walkabouts, and Paul Austin, who lately quit Boston's Willard Grant Conspiracy. After a debut album out recently on FILMguerrero, the band is so kind as to give us this recording, which the fans of the Walkabouts and WGC should love -- and so should those who adore the Red House Painters or Mazzy Star. In a nutshell, it's stretched folk music with insistent loops, elevated by Terri's voice in...
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This is not the first treat we get from Matt Bauer: a few years ago, he had already contributed to our "Tribute To The Anthology Of American Folk Music by Harry Smith" with an edited cover of "Willie Moore". Shortly afterwards, he had sent us his big EP "Wasps And White Roses", a beautiful folk piece on which the banjo blends with Matt's suave voice. In addition, Matt was surrounded with nice people, as Jolie Holland and Mariee Sioux joined him for this EP! So as...
Topics: Matt Bauer, hinah, hinah session, session, concert
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Mar 28, 2014
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Martin Klingman
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Between two recording sessions for his band Gliss, Martin Klingman goes stripped down: he just plays sparse notes on his acoustic guitar to produce lo-fi (but silky) folk music, and lets his high-pitched, nearly feminine voice, caress our ears. Possibly a cross between Devendra Banhart and Hope Sandoval? - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=s&ref=hinah019 "What moments fill you with childlike innocence? Running in the rain? Listening to the White Album on headphones spaced...
Topics: hinah, hinah series, Martin Klingman, Apple Skies
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We literally fell for Arman Méliès's debut folky and delicate mini-lp "Le Long train lent et les beaux imbéciles". Above all he has this impressive gift to mix two usually incompatible fields: lyrics in French and deeply American music. So we asked him to come at the hinah hq to record a session. Here it is! - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=g&ref=hinahgift008 "Août 2003 : les tous premiers exemplaires (cousus mains) de mon mini-album sous le bras, je file...
Topics: Arman Méliès, hinah, hinah session, session, concert
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Mar 25, 2014
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Anamude
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A few months ago, Anamude -- aka Ana Hortillosa, as she's the only one behind that name -- sent us her first 5-song ep. The only comparison that springs to our minds about how we felt when we heard to it, is our reaction to M. Ward's first album: light raw folk music, a beautiful guitar picking and a terrific voice! - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=s&ref=hinah014 " "Remember That Sweater?" was recorded one November afternoon in 2002. Live guitar & vocals...
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Three years ago, we recorded in our Parisian flat the first hinah session of HitchcockGoHome! with the whole band. Since then, there have been quite a few changes, with Martin Leclerc living in Grenoble and us in Frankfurt. As luck would have it, the three of us were in Paris in September and we took the opportunity to ask Martin to grab his banjo and play a few new songs from the band. The full-sized version of these songs will be on HitchcockGoHome's second album forthcoming on Drunk Dog...
Topics: HitchcockGoHome!, Martin Leclerc, hinah, hinah session, session, concert
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Empty House Cooperative
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Empty House Cooperative "Seven" is a document of one of the core trio's many gatherings. The titles are a play on words, mixing imagistic language to rhyme with the numbers, with "Seven" being both, as the number 7 is my secret soothing obsessive-compulsive fixation number. We've developed our unspoken "just do it and enjoy it" musical language over the 20 years since we began as Sunday jam sessions in 1996. I had a vision to invite musicians that I trusted or had...
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In January 2008, Shelley Short (a folksinger from Portland, friend of M. Ward's and of the members of Norfolk & Western, with albums out on KEEP Recordings and Hush Records - what else can we ask for?) contacted us with a request: as she was coming to Paris for two weeks holidays, she was trying to sort out a gig there. Our fine friend Erwan Broussine from Waterhouse Records helped organise a show at the "Pop In" together with Brittain Ashford and Pollyanna. Luckily, we were in...
Topics: Shelley Short, hinah, hinah session, session, concert
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Melmac
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The Reverter brothers' project, Melmac, is an ever-mutating band. It explores a melancholy and introspective world of sounds: before, it was thanks to guitars close to the noisy galaxy of Mogwai and Godspeed You Black Emperor!, but now it's through clever and minimalist electronic music (endless loops and collages). Through their arty and personal approach, the Parisians like to disturb their audience, especially during their shows, magical moments made up of a sole track that feeds on...
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This is what you could call a last-minute hinah session. We were in Paris, where we had organised an evening with - we thought - two sessions, by Shelley Short and Flowers From The Man Who Shot Your Cousin. But then we met Brittain Ashford, whose debut solo album had just come out on Waterhouse Records and who was about to go on tour in France with Pollyanna. We invited her to come along... and we'd say it was an excellent idea, given the four folk songs full of autoharp and dulcimer that came...
Topics: Brittain Ashford, hinah, hinah session, session, concert
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Exactly one year after his first visit at the hinah hq, Adam Selzer came back to see us after a tour in Germany, but this time without his Norfolk & Western crew. As he hadn't planned any shows in Paris, we invited him to play in front of a bunch of friends. Adam kindly said yes and he played brand new songs for our delighted ears! - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=g&ref=hinahgift007 "Here are some songs I recorded exactly one year after the first hinah session....
Topics: Adam Selzer, hinah, hinah session, session, concert
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Pierre Laplace (singer from Vera Clouzot) came to Paris for a gig as Kenyon -- his new project -- with his young friend Ambroise. Although Pierre behaved like a kid, stayed out most of the night and hardly slept a wink, we fell on him as soon as he woke up and forced him to play a short acoustic session, among which these two intimate folk songs. - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=g&ref=hinahgift003 "Sunday morning, December 2002. Eloïse and Laurent's place. Still numb...
Topics: Kenyon, Pierre Laplace, hinah, hinah session, session, concert
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Mar 20, 2014
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The Tami Show
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Last year, Tami Means sent us her debut album, which began with a cover of Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train" -- a song that Peace Harbor had already covered on the big "Voices From The Light" EP that we released (incidentally, we very much recommend Elizabeth Cotten's own recordings). That was a very good beginning! And the remainder of the album was quite as charming, slow slender folk music led by an intimate, softly deep voice. On this new recording, Tami's music remains...
Topics: hinah, hinah series, The Tami Show, Grind My Nails
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Jun 29, 2015
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Nathan Amundson
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For his third hinah session, Nathan Amundson decided not to use our acoustic guitars but instead his own electric guitar - unplugged. With Nathan singing over these muted metallic strings, the songs of Rivulets sound quite new and more intimate than ever. - hinah http://hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=g&ref=hinahgift029 Titles 1 - "Interstate" 2 - "No Talking" 3 - "The Road" 4 - "Come See Me" 5 - "Gentile Boyfriend pt 1" 6 - "Gentile...
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We discovered Andrew Goldman's music a few years ago, at the time of his folk, melodic project Maestro Echoplex. After playing for a while under the name John Guilt, Andrew started a new project named Fulton Lights, which has just released its second album "The Way We Ride" and its heavier and more distorted atmospheres and tempos. As Andrew was on solo tour in Europe, we invited him over for a session that was meant to be electric but ended up being acoustic after the amp of our...
Topics: Fulton Lights, Andrew Goldman, hinah, hinah session, session, concert
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Feb 13, 2016
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Colin Faivre
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After seven years of hibernation, this is our first release under the new version of the hinah series, recorded by a French musician, Colin Faivre. Colin plays the baritone banjo, however not in a traditional manner. He likes improvising and experimenting, unfurling deep sounds, casting an ear towards Indian ragas or Middle-Eastern music, taking us in flights of arpeggios and wild rides, or on the contrary delivering much more parsimonious notes to let the listener enjoy internal journeys....
Topics: Colin Faivre, Itinéraires II, hinah, hinah series, folk, banjo, improvisation, experimental
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Mar 18, 2014
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Half Asleep
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The project of Belgium's young Valérie Leclercq, Half Asleep, drags us into a woolly universe where life keeps the soft pace of guitar and piano loops. Her (filled to the brim) debut demo we received last year reminds us of our excitement upon first hearing such great ladies as Tara Jane O'Neil, Julie Doiron, Stina Nordenstam, and Lisa Germano... say no more! - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=s&ref=hinah018 "2003. November - December: I stole a friend's MD mic and began...
Topics: hinah, hinah series, Half Asleep, Just Before We Learned To Swim
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Mar 26, 2014
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C'est quand même bruyant par ici
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C'est quand même bruyant par ici is the project of two multi-instrumentists from Marseille, Pascal Ferrari and Yves Miara. Its kindred spirit could be Amor Belhom Duo on their "black" album: plenty of soundscapes, ideas spreading in various directions, and in the end quite a personal sound. - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=s&ref=hinah021 "This first home-recorded album is made up of 14 soundscape pieces, mainly based on compositions, themes, and textures...
Topics: hinah, hinah series, hinah021 - C'est quand même bruyant par ici
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Jun 29, 2015
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Elke De Mey
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Love Like Bird -- the project of Elke De Mey, a young musician from Belgium -- is packed with folk music sweetness, in the form of a parsimonious guitar and above all a touching, elegant, slightly nonchalant voice that makes you relax and day-dream. This session was recorded in 2011 and is finally available on our website! - hinah http://hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=g&ref=hinahgift028 Titles 1 - "Sailorboy" 2 - "Manic" 3 - "Drink Up, Dear" 4 - "Cold...
Topics: Love Loke Birds, Elke De Mey, hinah, hinah session, session, concert
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For their third gig, and thanks to Fred Paquet from Intercontinental Records, Valérie Leclercq and her very young sister from Half Asleep were happy to come to Paris. So were we, because we couldn't wait to find out whether their performance would touch us as much as their cd. And it did -- now we love their music even more! - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=g&ref=hinahgift006 "Pop In, 2003 October the 1st. Half asleep is invited (thanks Fred!) to come spread its stuff...
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Mar 25, 2014
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The Green Apple Sea
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Although a bit more than a year ago we announced the end of the hinah series, it is back again! And as we are now located in Germany, what better way to start again than with a band from Nuremberg? It is true that The Green Apple Sea is a German band, however it sounds more like an American folk band successfully enhanced with pop melodies and the warm, sweet voice of Stefan Prange (who was also the bassist of The Transmissionary Six during their latest tour in Europe). We also stronglly...
Topics: hinah, hinah series, The Green Apple Sea, How Else Can We Escape
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Under the name Don Nino, Nicolas Laureau (member of NLF3 trio, ex-member of Prohibition and founding member & A&R of Prohibited Records) released in 2001 his first solo album "Real Seasons Make Reasons". After a long series of gigs with Shane Aspegren et Lori Chun Berg (Berg Sans Nipple) as a backing band, Nicolas played his last show of the year at les Instants Chavirés, together with his label fellows (Berg Sans Nipple, his brother F.Lor, the Herman Düne brothers,...
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Those who visit our website regularly are bound to have come across the name "Flowers From The Man Who Shot Your Cousin" once in a while in the news section. Indeed, we have been following closely Morgan Caris's project in the last five years and we would very much like to release something with his name on it... But Morgan is a perfectionist and this something is yet to come. Therefore a hinah session had clearly become necessary and the opportunity of an acoustic evening with...
Topics: Flowers From The Man Who Shot Your Cousin, Morgan Caris, hinah, hinah session, session, concert
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We took the opportunity of having Norfolk & Western in Paris (on their way to supporting Sparklehorse during their European tour) to ask them to play a hinahsession for us between the meat and the cheese. And so we've got four tracks by Norfolk & Western, one track from (N&W leader) Adam Selzer's solo project, and two tracks by Peace Harbor -- the project of N&w guitarist, lapsteel and banjo player Zak Riles. - hinah...
Topics: Norfolk & Western, Adam Selzer, Peace Harbor, Zak Riles, Rachel Blumberg, hinah, hinah session,...
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"This is a collection of songs we recorded for our dad as a gift for Fathers Day. We hail originally from Texas, so this style of music is in our blood and kind of boils to the surface now and again - it's also fun as hell to play. The name Vida Ray is a mix of our late mom's middle name and our dad's middle name - sort of a a tribute with a nice southern flair. We're just completing a new recording of 11 original songs that should be out soon." - Tami & Craig Means...
Topics: Vida Ray, Tami Means, Craig Means, hinah, cover
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In order to celebrate hinah's first birthday and Christmas at the same time, Empty House Cooperative kindly gave us this improvisational concert at a restaurant. It's likely to destabilize the listeners, but it will also enable them to discover the fascinating music of this band using the surrounding noises as a new musical parameter. - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=g&ref=hinahgift001 "I refer to these recordings as "dinner music" because we performed for...
Topics: Empty House Cooperative, David Michael Curry, Chris Brokaw, Thalia Zedek, hinah, concert
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Feb 5, 2010
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Barzin
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On its eponymous debut album, the quiet ethereal music of Canada's Barzin blends warm folk music à la Mojave 3 with the sweetness of Spain and much colder atmospheres à la Low and Mazzy Star. - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=s&ref=hinah020 "If it were not for the generosity of hinah (Eloïse & Laurent) these songs would not have been recorded. This was a wonderful opportunity to record this collection of songs that otherwise would not have seen the light of day....
Topics: Barzin, Songs for hinah, hinah, hinah series
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Mar 26, 2014
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Alex Gwinnett
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We discovered simple and direct folk music of Alex Gwinnett (an Englishman settled in France) in a tiny Parisian venue, le Pop In. We loved his songs so much that we went to see him at the end of his set, asked him to send us some recordings and, upon hearing them, decided to book him for the first release in 2003. - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=s&ref=hinah013 " "Here & There" is a collection of songs written between Japan and Paris over a period of five...
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Oct 22, 2011
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Doug Hoekstra
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Doug Hoekstra cites his main references as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison and The Kinks and on listening to his work, you can believe him. The adopted Nashvillian has taken the influences of the songs and rhythms of folk/country/pop and the results, while remaining loyal to the musical main line are highly personal creations; the songs which lean on Doug's sweet and delicate voice (helped by feminine backing vocals) whisper the ordinary stories of everyday life. - hinah...
Topics: Doug Hoekstra, hinah, hinah series
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Mar 25, 2014
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Templo Diez
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We discovered Templo Diez thanks to an exchange of records with the French label Intercontinental Records, which had released the band's debut album "Hoboken". Three years later, while hinah was on a sabbatical year, Pascal Hallibert sent us the new cd of Templo Diez, "Winterset", on which we especially loved the beautiful song "Sal". We suggested we could put out an EP if they felt like going for more acoustic tracks and putting the voice of Gloribel Hernandez...
Topics: hinah, hinah series, Templo Diez, Crowheart
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Mar 25, 2014
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LunDi
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LunDi is the solo project of Claude-Marin Herbert, a young man deeply inspired by the delicate music of pop heroes such as Mark Hollis and the Nits. It is no surprise that this project reminds us of a band like Bed (who is quite undeniably influenced by Mark Hollis), yet with a noteworthy difference: Claude-Marin's lyrics are in (beautiful) French. For this new recording (his first ep "Cendres ascendantes" is available in the hinah gift section on hinah), LunDi keeps exploring the...
Topics: hinah, hinah series, LunDi, Mobiles/motifs
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In the autumn of 2006, we received an email from our friend Paul Austin from the Transmissionary Six. He was just back from Portland, where he had attended a show by a folk singer named Laura Gibson, whom he very warmly recommended to us. So we followed Paul's mouthwatering advice and, much to the pleasure of our ears, discovered "Hands In Pockets", "Nightwatch" and other jewels produced by another friend of the hinah family, Adam Selzer from Norfolk & Western. That made...
Topics: Laura Gibson, hinah, hinah session, session, concert
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Kenyon
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Kenyon is the project of Pierre Laplace, who is already well-known around here as the former singer of Vera Clouzot (who recorded the very first cd in our hinah series) -- and he also recorded a hinah session as Kenyon back in 2003. Although the last songs from Vera Clouzot were written in French and leaned more towards rock, with Kenyon Pierre has come back to his original songwriting: folk songs with lyrics in English. "Catch A Star" is a collection of straightforward, stripped down...
Topics: hinah, hinah series, Kenyon, Catch A Star
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Natural Snow Buildings
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Funnily enough, without even listening to the album that Natural Snow Buildings sent us, we already felt on familiar ground. Maybe quite simply thanks to the plain information that came along with their album: just a sheet of tracing paper with the titles and the instruments, typed with a typewriter font. And the osmosis wasn't denied, as we fell for these long atmospheric tracks, mostly based on a guitar/loops/cello trio. - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=s&ref=hinah012...
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Feb 4, 2010
02/10
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Arman Méliès
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We literally fell for Arman Méliès's debut folky and delicate mini-lp "Le Long train lent et les beaux imbéciles". Above all he has this impressive gift to mix two usually incompatible fields: lyrics in French and deeply American music. - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=s&ref=hinah022 "Le Magasin Pittoresque is a revue of the XIX th century, full of obsolete illustrations and ingenious articles. An improbable kind of Reader Digest, more poetical, meanwhile....
Topics: Arman Méliès, Le Magasin Pittoresque, hinah, hinah series
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Mar 15, 2014
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James William Hindle & James Green
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We bought James William Hindle's debut album on trust in his record label (Badman, which had just released albums by Mark Kozelek and Paula Frazer) and in the beautiful sleeve à la Red House Painters. When we got home, we looked at the booklet and found out that the artwork was done by our comrade Matt Dornan from Comes with a Smile. That was definitely a very good start. As for the music, we totally fell for James's folk songs and catchy melodies. We loved his very soft voice, and his cover...
Topics: hinah, hinah series, James Hindle, James Green, The Goat
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Mar 26, 2014
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Empty House Cooperative
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The Empty House Cooperative began in 1997 with casual gatherings for brunch and music at David Michael Curry's apartment in Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The limits of a conventional band setting led DMC to explore ideas of improvised music with like-minded friends, staying with no formula, but eventually growing into a moody flavor related to chamber music mixed with avant-garde noise-rock, with meditative tonal shadings. The music varies depending on who is playing... there...
Topics: hinah, hinah series, Empty House Cooperative, Improvisational Music
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Oct 20, 2011
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Vera Clouzot
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Vera Clouzot is a band from Lille, Northern France. They began as a three-piece band (vocals, guitars and cello) influenced by American folk bands such as the Red House Painters, Smog, American Music Club. They released two self-produced albums in English, and then an album in French, with a more personal sound, in 2000. They're now a quintet, with a jazz drummer and a bass player. - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=s&ref=hinah001 These tracks were selected from the last of a...
Topics: Vera Clouzot, Live au Biplan, hinah, hinah series
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H. Burns is the solo project of Renaud Brustlein, who also plays in the band Dont Look Back. Renaud had really impressed us when he opened for Okkervil River in 2005 and so we offered him to record the last hinah session in our former headquarters in Paris. H-Burns played two songs from his first album ("Songs From The Electric Sky", out on 15 May on Noise Digger/Differ-ant) as well as many covers, two of which are now included in our Tribute to the Anthology of American Folk Music by...
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For the first single out on hinah, here's a French and English meeting between the projects of Sammy Decoster and Gaetan Boyer: folk music injected with pop, country and electronica hormones (yes, we swear, electronica). - hinah http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=si&ref=hinahsingle001 a - Tornado "I'm The Pavement Of Your Way" The project of France's young Sammy Decoster, Tornado explores a folk music that doesn't stray far from pop, country, and lo-fi areas. This is his...
Topics: Tornado, Countree House, hinah, hinah split single, split single
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he Potomac Accord's first album sat in our letterbox when we came back from holidays in 2001, it was mid-September... It soon became the perfect album to match our state of mind, which was by no means cheerful. The band's tracks were long, stretching, starting again after a short break, with swirling loops of piano, until now and then it burst out into an anger that could no longer be repressed. So we were overwhelmed by this band from St. Louis, and it's a great pleasure for us to discover...
Topics: hinah, hinah series, The Potomac Accord, Six Live Plus Two
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Let's make it clear: Devendra is a crazy folky minstrel and an inveterate traveller (Texas, Caracas, Los Angeles, New York...). We discovered him by chance as a support act, and later it chanced that he sent us a tape together with a marble, wrapped up in an envelop from the French Treasury. Devendra's music is folk for sure, but it leaves free rein to its madness, its rhythm breaks and a Marc-Bolan-like voice. Note that Young God Records will soon release an album from Devendra, with a name...
Topics: hinah, hinah series, Devendra Banhart, The Charles C. Leary
